To be honest, the people of the Kong family were a little unconvinced, and they thought that the Qin family was in the first place?

Kong Xiangxi, a native of Taigu, Shanxi, his ancestral home is Qufu, Shandong, is the 75th grandson of Confucius, graduated from Yale University with a master's degree in 1907, and obtained the exclusive agency of the British Shell Oil Company in Shanxi in 1912.

That night, the Kong family rarely got together for dinner.

There are six people here, in addition to Kong Xiangxi and his wife, there are two sons and two daughters, Kong Lingkan, Kong Lingjie, Kong Lingyi, and Kong Lingjun. Among them, the second son Kong Lingjie and the eldest daughter Kong Lingyi are both honest people and have not left a bad reputation in history. The eldest son, Kong Lingkan, and the second daughter, Kong Lingjun, are notorious and infamous.

At this time, Kong Lingkan was only 18 years old, still studying at St. John's University, and often stayed up all night and went in and out of major dance halls.

The second lady, Kong Lingjun, is only 15 years old, and she has not yet reached the age of flying and domineering.

During the banquet, Mrs. Kong talked about the new ranking of the six major families in the newspaper and said: "Yongzhi, do you guess how much wealth the Qin family has? As the richest man in the Republic of China, can it be regarded as deserved?"

The implication of her words: "Our Kong family is also very rich, but we just didn't show it!"

Since 1933, Kong Xiangxi has been the head of the Ministry of Finance, vice president of the "Executive Yuan", president of the Central Bank, and chairman of the Peasant Bank, so he can understand how much the Qin family has deposits in major domestic banks, and as for the situation of foreign banks, he has no way to understand it in depth.

Therefore, he just smiled slightly and said, "With those deposits alone, the Qin family can't be the richest man in the Republic of China, but well, how much grain reserves the Qin family grain bank has, this is an unknown." ”

Madame said: "The newspaper said that according to the statistics of the customs, Qin's grain store has imported 30 million tons of grain in the past three years. Especially last year, it was like crazy, big ships came in one after another, and I didn't know what they wanted to do. Since the beginning of this year, they have imported a slight decrease in grain imports, but increased the ...... cotton, sugar, edible oil, and canned food."

Kong Xiangxi sighed lightly: "The Qin family has no power or power, but they have done such a big business, speaking of which, I also feel admired." However, the grain imported by the Qin family is indeed being sold at a low price, and they can't make much money based on this alone. I just don't understand, how do they accumulate wealth? Could it be that licensing and selling drugs alone?

"It seems that the profitability of Guotai Pharmaceutical is very high! It has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people. ”

"No, according to the secret report of the Fuxing Society, Guotai Pharmaceutical's annual profit does not exceed 30 million yuan. There is no way to support the import of so much food. ”

"You mean that the Qin family still has foreign wealth?"

"I don't know, I just think it's weird. For example, this time, the Qin family inexplicably sold the property north of Suzhou Creek three months in advance, recovered a large amount of silver, and exchanged it for dollars, making a lot of money!

"Qin Hancheng studied in the United Kingdom, Zhang Naijing studied in the United States, maybe they got acquainted with American congressmen?"

"Hmph, I'm also studying in the United States, why didn't I get the news?"

"This ......"

Kong Xiangxi said: "And I still have a question, why do you say that the Qin family wants to sell the real estate north of Suzhou Creek? But keep most of the industries on the south bank of Suzhou Creek? Could it be that a Suzhou Creek will change the situation of real estate on both sides?"

Mrs. Kong said: "Yongzhi, you think too much. Maybe it's for the convenience of management, so they have all the industries in one place!"

Kong Xiangxi shook his head and said, "Yesterday, the U.S. Embassy sent a telegram to know the general situation of the Qin family. ”

"Hey, how can Americans be interested in the Qin family?"

"I don't know, it wasn't said on telegram. ”

At this time, the youngest daughter Kong Lingjun suddenly smiled and said: "I heard that the eldest young master of the Qin family is one of the four beautiful men of the Republic of China, I don't know if it's true? I have a pictorial here, I don't know why, it's a little blurry, I can't see his appearance." ”

Kong Xiangxi snorted lightly: "Men look at talent, not looks!"

Kong Lingkan smiled: "Dad, you're not right. I've seen Qin Dashao, his appearance is extraordinary, he can be called a heartthrob!"

Kong Lingjun asked, "Where did you see it?" Can you take me to see it?"

Kong Lingkan said: "Hehe, I passed by Paramount that day and saw it once in a while!"

Kong Xiangxi glared at him: "You are still studying, that kind of place, go less in the future!"

Kong Lingkan lowered his head to eat and did not speak again.

Paramount is the most famous leisure and entertainment place in the magic capital, located at No. 218 Yuyuan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, which is equivalent to the Republic of China version of heaven and earth, known as "the first music house in the East". The English name is "ParamountHall", and the homonym is named "Paramount". It was built in 1931 by Gu Liancheng and opened in 1933. But ordinary people don't know that its land and feet belong to the Qin family! No way, who let Qin Di start early, more than ten years in advance, to buy such a good place, and the really prosperous place of the magic capital will become more and more expensive!

Paramount has three floors and a construction area of 2,550 square meters. The ground floor is the kitchen and the storefront, the second floor is the dance floor and the banquet hall, the dance floor is more than 500 square meters, the reinforced concrete structure, the floor is supported by automobile steel plate, the feeling of shaking will be produced when dancing, so it is called the spring floor; there is a small dance floor that can be divided at will around the big dance floor, which can be used for people to practice dancing and can also be used for tryst; the two-story dance hall is all opened, which can be used for thousands of people to dance at the same time, and the indoor is also equipped with air conditioning and heating, and the furnishings are luxurious. The third floor is the hotel, and the top floor is equipped with a huge cylindrical fiberglass tower, when the dancers are ready to leave, the waiter can type the customer's car license plate or other code on the tower, and the driver can see it from a distance, and drive the car to the door of the dance hall.

The sign at the door clearly marks the price, and the dance hall charges according to different time periods: tea dance from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., the ticket is 40 yuan per person on weekdays, 50 yuan per person on holidays, champagne dance from 4:40 p.m. to 8 p.m., the ticket price is 100 yuan, and the minimum ticket for the evening dance venue from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. is 200 yuan, and the rest of the consumption is calculated separately. The evening dance hall is accompanied by a jazz band and a singer sings English songs live, and is accompanied by professional male and female ballroom dancers, the price of female dancers is 35 yuan per session, a session of 10 minutes.

Therefore, Paramount is not something that ordinary people can enter! One night's consumption is enough for ordinary people to eat for half a year!

Paramount is the representative of the old magic capital, and it is also a symbol of the so-called "Golden Decade of the Republic of China". It shines day and night with a brilliant light of economy and culture. Without Paramount, the magic capital would be eclipsed.

At that time, the most fashionable entertainment activities were eating Western food, watching movies, and finally dancing at Paramount.

It was frequented by high-ranking Kuomintang officials such as Zhang Xueshan, danced here when the Chaplins visited Shanghai, and was also a frequent meeting place for gangsters such as Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng. Paramount became a part of the upper class life in the magic capital, and jazz became popular in the Shili Ocean Field, forming the "Paramount dance style", and the word "modern" quickly multiplied and became a symbol of this era.

To this day, no one can take it. The popular classic "Shanghai Tang", most of the background is Paramount.

Such a beautiful gold cave is of course attractive to Young Master Kong, he is a frequent visitor there, and he can occasionally meet Qin Dashao.

It's just that Qin Dashao rarely dances on the dance floor, and often sits in the tea room on the side, quietly watching the figures turning on the dance floor.

And half of the people who sang there were singers from the Momoyo company. But only people like Zhou Xuan, Bai Hong, and Gong Qiusha have the opportunity to know Qin Di, and other singers may not know that he is the boss behind the scenes.